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Engineering Notebook: Samantha Shultz

1/21-28/2021

  • Met with team in person to discuss initial design
  • Figured out our initial designs and goals
    • The product to be produced is a web-based tool with which a user can input research papers, view graphs of the citations, and add necessary info
    • Some issues deciding whether or not we will use a database
    • Deciding whether to put GUI work in more towards the end of the project

2/9/2021

  • Team met to work on SRS document
    • Made future plans to start assigning tasks
  • Met with Liu to talk about any concerns he has with the project
    • Making sure we are all on page for what the end product will look like, and we are
  • Plan to meet again before Thursday to finish the SRS
    • SRS due date is Thursday the 11th

2/11/2021

  • Worked on finishing the SRS
    • Worked on requirements together and talked about UML diagram
    • Completed the document
  • I assigned some tasks to group members on the scrum board
    • We need to further discuss more of the tasks and need to assign them all to members

2/16/2021

  • Worked on the SDS
    • Using the SDS from last semester and Dr. Akbas' example as a reference on how to fill out each part
    • This is due Thursday (the 18th)
  • Once all of this documentation is done, we can really start going hard on the project
    • Tasks have been split up
    • Did some research on how to work with a GUI and Doxygen
    • Need to start research on other citation graphs
  • Started the Test Plan outline

2/18/2021

2/23/2021

  • SDS is complete
    • Went over the entire document to edit
      • Made lots of edits and rewrote some sections
  • Research paper almost complete
    • Finished my portion of the paper 2/22
      • Received Sultan's on 2/23 and combined ours into one paper
    • Draft is made, just need to edit
  • Now preparing for Sprint Demo on Thursday

2/25/2021

  • Research paper is complete
    • Added paper into the Wiki folder on Github
  • All documents are up-to-date
  • Worked on Sprint Demo
    • Split up with team who will be talking about which points
    • Working with team to create a video
  • Need to fill out peer evals when they become ready
  • Now that this sprint is over, we can refine our Product Backlog and move things into the Sprint Backlog
    • Need to assign tasks for new sprint and created a plan of what we want to get accomplished

3/2/2021

  • Sprint 2 Kickoff
  • Created and finalized story cards
    • Assigned tasks to team members
  • Once we get feedback from Product Owner and the Costumer we can:
    • Update SRS
    • Update SDS

3/4/2021

  • Updated SRS
    • Went off of David's comments
    • Had to add more requirements that we said we would do this sprint
  • Got together with the team and we went over HTML/CSS/JS

3/9/2021

  • Drew sketches for website design
    • Sent them to the group to get feedback
    • Made some changes
    • Plan to start working on implementing these designs with Luis
  • Started work on HTML/CSS and pushed some code
    • Struggled a little bit connecting the HTML and CSS that Luis is going to look at
    • Designed a potential logo and was able to get some basic design on the website
  • Need to look at working on Test Plan V1
    • Due Thursday 3/11/2021

3/11/2021

  • More HTML/CSS
    • Luis worked on the code I sent him, and he sent it back
    • Reviewed his changes, and am still working on more design, plan to push more code by tonight
    • Need to finish up the design so that we can start implementing the back end work into the front end
    • https://fonts.google.com/ (for font search)
  • Test Plan V1 due today

3/18/2021

  • SDS V2 due today
    • Made minor changes
  • Pushed some code at the beginning of the week for Luis to look over
    • He is going to look at it and add to it
  • Need to finish the input page by this weekend
    • Need to ensure this gets done on time so we don't halt back-end

3/23/2021

  • Designed Pages
    • About Page done
    • Contact Page done
    • Just need to add styling to Input Papers and Look Up Papers pages
  • Sprint Demo on Thursday
    • Need to create demo and slides

3/25/2021

  • Preliminary design complete for every page on website
    • Worked with Aaron to ensure our branches worked together with no conflicts
    • Worked closely with Luis this sprint to design the website
    • Next sprint can make better designs, and coding conventions
  • Met with team to complete Sprint Demo
    • Ensured all documents were up to date
    • Created presentation
  • Need to discuss with team tasks for Sprint 3
    • Need to clean up backlog and create more tasks

4/06/2021

  • Worked on assigning tasks to group
    • Now the real kick start of the Sprint 3
  • Need to update documentation according to David's notes
  • Going to work with Aaron on integrating the Database/Server with the front-end
  • Going to work with Luis on further implementing the design

4/08/2021

  • Working with Aaron on integrating database/server with front-end
  • Starting to develop some new design ideas
  • Cleaning up documentation

4/13/2021

  • Meeting with Aaron on Thursday to complete story card
  • Completed final version of SDD
  • Final version of SRS is complete

4/15/2021

  • Met with Aaron and completed story card
    • The front-end now works with the database
      • Papers that are input are now saved and can be accessed
  • Cleaned up scrum board
    • Moved tasks around so it is up-to-date
  • Reviewed Corrina's pull-request on the database
    • She merged to master

4/20/2021

  • Edit website design
    • change look of look up paper page
    • fix button alignment on input paper page
    • change look of about apge
  • New dependency graph table look
    • edit the information tables

4/22/2021

  • Prepping for IEEE meeting
    • working and completing slides
    • presentation is tonight
  • Continued work on web page redesign

4/27/2021

  • Further worked on developing website design
    • Redesigned completely some of the pages
    • Better alignment
    • Table look could still be improved, potentially if this project is adapted
      • Room for improvement in all areas of design for future project work
  • Completed demo slides
    • Presenting today
  • Ensured all documentation was up-to-date with given notes from TA and prof
    • Also edited slides to Prof comments, most comments were on slides that got deleted from IEEE conference though
  • Now we graduate!

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